SAMBROT, William (Anthony)

(1920-)

   US author of more than 50 sf short stories, beginning with "Report to the People" for The BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE in 1953. Most of his work appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other "slicks" and consequently received less attention from within the sf world than it might have done, considering its vigour and polish. WS released Island of Fear and Other SF Stories (coll 1963), and under the pseudonym WilliamAyes (he wrote also as Anthony Ayes) published a series of stories about Crazy Murtag in various men's magazines; in these Melvin Murtag attempts such impossible feats as repealing the First Law of Thermodynamics.

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